Dog keeps choking on kibble even with a slow feeder
Dogs often gulp down kibble without chewing, causing repeated choking that standard slow feeders fail to fix. Owners are left constantly patting their dog's back during meals while trying to manage related behavioral issues like forced vomiting.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Softening the food with water
- 2Using a slow feeder bowl or Kong wobbler
- 3Breaking the food into smaller pieces with a food processor or chopper
- 4Scattering the food on a flat baking sheet, floor, or in the garden
- 5Throwing tennis balls into the bowl with the food
- 6Rushing out of bed to quickly move her to a hard surface
- 7Putting the cat on a regular feeding schedule
- 8Using timed feeders
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“he chokes on his food every time because he picks chunks up instead of actually chewing his food.”source ↗
“I’m just getting really frustrated because I have to pat his back every single time due to choking like it’s his very first time eating in his whole life.”source ↗
“Ohhhh and I have already bought a slow feeder it doesn’t help!”source ↗
“she would eat plants and make herself puke to get me to feed her.”source ↗
“In my new place there are no plants for her to reach so she’s been drinking an excess of water to make herself puke so I will get up to feed her.”source ↗
“I don’t know what to do to get her to stop especially I’m in a new apartment and trying to keep the rug clean.”source ↗
Where this came up
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